06-12-2008, 09:23 PM
|
| Puritanboard Doctor | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Saintfield, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
Posts: 6,568
Thanks: 2,062
Thanked 1,124 Times in 740 Posts
| |
Quote:
Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter  Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Quote:
Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter One more thing. I have a good book by J. H. Thornwell I believe where he refutes RC Baptism as invalid. Thus he would say that rebaptism is essential also. Is he a heretic? Some presby's on this board agree with him. Some believe that RCC baptism is legit. | I agree with Thornwell. I recall a debate a while back in which someone tried to argue that baptism by a priest was valid, but baptism by a midwife was not. This is ridiculous, as they both work for a synagogue of Satan. The RCC is not part of the visible church, its baptism is no more valid than that of a man standing on a street corner throwing water over people in the name of the Trinity.
A converted RC who is baptized in a Protestant church is not being rebaptized, but baptized, as they have not received the sacrament in the first place. | So say you. And I would agree somewhat and even go farther than you and say that about those who were baptised as infants period. We are going to disagree. But the charge of heresy is a bit overboard in my estimation. It does call for repentance. | With the bold bit  wholeheartedly; if you are going to call alleged re-baptizers - who, according to their own views, are not even rebaptizing - heretics, then where do you stop. We may as well call everyone a heretic because we all believe something that is unbiblical (whether we are aware of it are not).
__________________
Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)
|